 | Prince Edward Island. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 558 pages
...has apparently acquiesced in an encroachment on his rights. In Smith v. Clay, (3) Lord Camden says, "a Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slumbered upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1138 pages
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch., note, pp. 639, 640, says: "A court of equity, which Is never act! vein relief against conscience or public convenience, has...always refused Its aid to stale demands when the party slept upon hie right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 764 pages
...HENDBBSON v. HICKS. [Jtdy, 1881. relief against conscience or public convenience, has always fused its aid to stale demands when the party has slept upon his rights or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this Court into activity but conscience,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 972 pages
...courts of equity will not entertain stale demands. The remark of Lord GAMDEN was approvingly quoted. " A court of equity which is never active in relief...convenience has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept on his rights VOL. VIII. — 74 964 or acquiesced for a great length of time.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1360 pages
...Battle quoted with approval the following words of Lord Camden In Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown's Ch. Rep. 640: "A court of equity, which Is never active In relief...convenience, has always refused Its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 736 pages
...Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. Rep., 640, note, Lord Camden, delivering the opinion of the court, truly said : "A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 666 pages
...BATTLE quoted with approval the following words of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown's Ch. Rep. 639: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 890 pages
...Clay, 3 Brown's Ch., G4U, note, stated it in a very pointed manner. "A court of equity," said he, " which is never active in relief against conscience...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1024 pages
...whether there is a demurrer or formal plea of the statute of limitations contained in the answer." "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience," said Lord Camden, in a celebrated case, " has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1889 - 768 pages
...by Justice Harlan, in Hayward v, Eliot Nat. Bank, 96 US (6 Otto) 611 ; bk. 21, L. ed. 855, 858, that "A court of equity, which Is never active in relief...to stale demands, when the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
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A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this... 
